Perhaps Tesla, and other EV manufacturers should be forced to have either internal fire supressants or have a way for fire departments be able to inject water directly into the battery from a distribution system that can flood the battery in cold water to cool it.
both approaches are useless. Lithium can burn even when completely submerged under water. The only possible solution is to construct the battery pack so that when accidentally ruptured and ignited, fire will not spread to other battery blocks.
@@jiri3312 fire needs 3 ingredients to keep burning, Fuel, Heat and Oxygen. Remove any of them and the fire will stop. Since the battery delivers fuel and oxygen internally removing the heat is the only option. So by flushing cold water through the battery one could cool it enough to stop the reaction.
@@eldaria Where are you getting all that extreme cold water from to put out a fire that burns at 2,000C? You really think no one thought of that idea..
From what I've heard, it is almost impossible to "cool down" the battery pack enough to avoid the fire from spreading from one battery cell to the neighboring one, once the fire has already started inside the pack. Because the pack is firmly sealed. The heat being created by fire inside the burning pack first heats up the surrounding battery cells, then heats up the covering plates and eventually burns through it. Even if you try cooling down the still compact pack that is already burning inside by throwing it to liquid nitrogen, the temperature inside the pack will remain high enough to keep burning until all battery cells inside the pack are burned out. The only solution is to construct the whole battery that way, the fire wouldn't be able to jump from one battery pack to another by proper thermal shielding between neighboring packs. So only the damaged battery pack (segment) burns out, then the fire dies out.
So there is 13000 individual incendiary devices underneath me in that thing. 😂
Not quite 😅
Perhaps Tesla, and other EV manufacturers should be forced to have either internal fire supressants or have a way for fire departments be able to inject water directly into the battery from a distribution system that can flood the battery in cold water to cool it.
both approaches are useless. Lithium can burn even when completely submerged under water. The only possible solution is to construct the battery pack so that when accidentally ruptured and ignited, fire will not spread to other battery blocks.
@@jiri3312 fire needs 3 ingredients to keep burning, Fuel, Heat and Oxygen. Remove any of them and the fire will stop. Since the battery delivers fuel and oxygen internally removing the heat is the only option. So by flushing cold water through the battery one could cool it enough to stop the reaction.
@@eldaria Where are you getting all that extreme cold water from to put out a fire that burns at 2,000C? You really think no one thought of that idea..
From what I've heard, it is almost impossible to "cool down" the battery pack enough to avoid the fire from spreading from one battery cell to the neighboring one, once the fire has already started inside the pack. Because the pack is firmly sealed. The heat being created by fire inside the burning pack first heats up the surrounding battery cells, then heats up the covering plates and eventually burns through it. Even if you try cooling down the still compact pack that is already burning inside by throwing it to liquid nitrogen, the temperature inside the pack will remain high enough to keep burning until all battery cells inside the pack are burned out. The only solution is to construct the whole battery that way, the fire wouldn't be able to jump from one battery pack to another by proper thermal shielding between neighboring packs. So only the damaged battery pack (segment) burns out, then the fire dies out.
The future is bright 🔥...
It sure is!!!!
Diesel is much safer
Some argue more convenient too!
All the more reason to back Edison Motors